

The Hillside Strangler
They lived to watch you die.
Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.4M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- prostitute
- rape
- 1970s
- pimp
- based on true story
- strip club
- serial killer
- strangulation
- strangler
- strong language
- serial rapist
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City8 Oct 2004
- TheatricalR12 Nov 2004
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1812 Nov 2004
PolandPL
- PhysicalDVD31 Mar 2005
SpainES
- PhysicalDVD25 Jan 2006
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The Hillside Strangler was released on 12 November 2004.
Audience reviews
1- J5/10
John Chard
12/1/2014
Hardly Kissing Cousins. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono were two cousins who were convicted of the rape, torture and murder of 10 females of various ages in LA 1977/78. This film is an interpretation of their reign of terror. Unpleasant. If you are going to do a serial killer movie, one based on real life perpetrators, then you surely have to make the characterisations of fascination value away from their desp…
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